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On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     AFAICS, the conversions that use `recode' can be rewritten to use
>     Emacs facilities based on Mule.  However, someone will have to write
>     more-or-less trivial wrappers for encode-coding-region and friends,
>     since we don't currently support encoding with names `ibm-pc',
>     `roman8', and iso646-ge.
> 
> Is this assuming we are trying to maintain precise compatibility?

Yes.